Summer Homework for 2013-2014 School Year

<p>I haven’t fully decided whether to keep all the AP courses I was placed in but if I do.
AP Gov: Read Plain Honest Men & Showdown at Gucci Gultch - Write responses.
AP Lit: Read Demain,The Namesake & Hedda Gabler
APES: Silent Spring - Some responses
Required Reading: The Running Dream
I haven’t started yet and I have month of summer. fun.</p>

<p>AP English Literature & Composition:</p>

<p>Read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Read Trifles by Susan Glaspell</p>

<p>AP Chemistry:</p>

<p>Go over the chemistry honors exam reviews for both semesters. Then go over power points of the first three chapters from Brown and LeMay’s “Chemistry: The Central Science.”</p>

<p>AP Eng Lang- read “Survival in Auschwitz”
Ap Calc AB- review packet of precalc
AP Chem- Notes on 2 chapters, memorization
Ap Physics B- work packet
AP World- 6 chapter notes, online quiz, make study guide</p>

<p>AP Chemistry: I’m a sophomore and they let me skip honors chem, so I have to take an entire high school chem class online over the summer w/ proctored midterms/finals
AP World History: Write 20 essays on different objects throughout certain time periods that “represent human history”
AP Psychology: Read 110 pages in the textbook and email the teachers notes and two essays by July 31
GT English 10: Read “The Poisonwood Bible” (543 pgs), “What is the What” (535 pgs), and a grammar book. Take notes on all three
GT Pre-calculus: 18 page math packet</p>

<p>AP Lit: We have to read “The Great Gatsby”. Are we kidding… We’re also reading “How to Read Literature like a Professor”.</p>

<p>5 APs, two have summer homework as well^ (that I know about!)
AP Chem & AP Calc AB.</p>

<p>5 APs, 4 have summer assignments :(</p>

<p>AP Lit: 3 books: How to Read Literature Like a Professor, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Poisonwood Bible</p>

<p>AP Gov: 2 books: Hardball and Confront and Conceal, a governmental organization chart, and 2 current events summaries. </p>

<p>AP Bio: reading 8 chapters of the textbook with quizzes on 6 of the chapters (and we have a quiz on the last two chapters on the first day of school)</p>

<p>AP Spanish: Reading 10 sources and making comments, etc about them </p>

<p>The only class for which I don’t have summer work is BC Calculus, oddly enough.</p>

<p>I’m a rising sophomore.
H precalculus–> write formula sheet and do 20 pages of math and study for test
H chemistry–>learn 2 chapters, study for test, and do 3 worksheets
H American literature–> read a book and fill out a sheet
US History–>read a book and study</p>

<p>Three books to read</p>

<p>AP Latin- 19 pages so like 70+ lines of translating which is A LOT. One nights homework should be like 8 lines. </p>

<p>APUSH- another whole book to read</p>

<p>AP Chem- 3 chapters and like 60 problems</p>

<p>AP Lit: read 3 books, write 2 essays.
For those who have taken this class already, what do you do in school with grapes of wrath?</p>

<p>Have to read the Autobiography of Malcolm X (which is pretty good) and The Sun Also Rises (which is killing my soul, bit by bit).</p>

<p>AP Art History- make 200+ notecards
AP Euro- outline, questions, other stuff for one chapter out of the book</p>

<p>APUSH: huge reading packet, with about 50 terms and some primary source stuff
AP English Lang: Great Gatsby, 10 typed pages of journals
AP Calc BC: (surprisingly easy) large packet of algebra/trig </p>

<p>I have yet to start APUSH and Lang, and school starts in a month and a day.</p>

<p>That lovely moment when you’re taking 6 AP classes and still have no summer homework :)</p>

<p>Ah…you must be blessed. Or something. Haha! @seapanda</p>

<p>@seapanda what I wouldn’t do to be you right now…</p>

<p>Haha it’s really odd, I don’t even have a list of “recommended readings” for English.</p>

<p>Honors English- Great Gatsby and Walden
AP Latin- read the Fitz translation of The Aeneid and outline the book as well as outline 20+ pages emailed to us by the teacher.
AP Bio- buy a review book and review
APUSH- review book and review.</p>

<p>AP English Language- Read 1984 and complete 3 different writing assignments (1-2 pages each)
APUSH- Read New York Burning and complete an 8-page questions packet
AP Physics B- 15-page packet of math review</p>

<p>@ AP Art History: Lol, so true for that class :)</p>

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<li><p>Fill out a college schedule advising form with classes, times, and dates.</p></li>
<li><p>Watch videos and answer questions on sexual assault and alcohol.</p></li>
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